I'm a little late to the table with this one.

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In a classic example of "damned if you do, damned if you don't:"



A recent research paper puts forth the notion that Israeli soliders aren't raping Palestinian women, but only because they don't consider them human, obviously.

Not because rape is utterly, horribly wrong or anything like that, no.

o.0



I'm gonna go to bed now. I have little else to say, really.

Comments

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I did not read the original paper, but the article does not state that this was the "only" reason.

I did see it say that it was trying to explain why the crime of rape is lower in the IDF than in other comparable situations.

From the summary, it is quite possible that the IDF has all the good reasons to avoid rape, plus a few unique reasons, and that this might explain the lower-than-expected level.

Or not - without the source paper, hard to say.

Did I miss something?